Villas Boas

[Avmenon]

I just got that

Good work from the Mike

 

[Gary25]

Comes across well, nice guy. Shame because in an ideal world, a horrible cuntish man should be in charge of a horrible cuntish Football Club.

 

[Woland]

Give it three months. You won't think he's a cunt, you'll know it and you'll know that you always knew it.

 

[cobrastatus]

[quote author=Krump link=topic=45135.msg1353805#msg1353805 date=1308824253]
Give it three months. You won't think he's a cunt, you'll know it and you'll know that you always knew it.
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LOL

 

[RolandG]

[quote author=Krump link=topic=45135.msg1353792#msg1353792 date=1308823892]
[quote author=Y1 link=topic=45135.msg1353539#msg1353539 date=1308790455]
At 33 he will be crucified by the Roman
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Heh
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LOL

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

http://newsthump.com/2011/06/23/abramovic-getting-impatient-as-villas-boas-enters-second-trophyless-day/

 

[zlatan18]

Villas-Boas wants Falcao at Chelsea to replace Torres - not Drogba

Fernando Torres' position at Chelsea is under threat with the arrival of new manager Andre Villas-Boas.

O Jogo says Villas-Boas is keen to bring with him to Chelsea his former Porto striker Radamel Falcao - who would arrive as not a threat to Didier Drogba, but Torres.

A source close to negotiations says any move for Falcao will depend on Chelsea finding a buyer for Torres.

The former Liverpool striker only moved to Chelsea in January for £50 million. The Blues would like to arrange a 'graceful exit' for the Spaniard, but are struggling to find buyers.

Villas-Boas has made the signing of Falcao a priority, but no negotiations will occur unless Chelsea can find a club to take Torres off their hands.


If true, that would be pretty funny 🙂

 

[Fabio]

that would be super funny.

 

[Mystic]

I'd piss myself with laughter if we bought him back for £15million

 

[Cerberus]

Take him back for ten million and pay as you play :-*

 

[spider-Neil]

ha ha I like boas already

 

[themn]

There is chance NONE that Abramovich will let Torres be sold, after he's chased him for years.

 

[Jürgen4PM]

I know hes not exactly scoring loads of goals for them yet, but it still pisses me off that he's not had so much as a niggle since signing for the Chavs.

 

[themn]

[quote author=Kenny4PM link=topic=45135.msg1354497#msg1354497 date=1308916534]
I know hes not exactly scoring loads of goals for them yet, but it still pisses me off that he's not had so much as a niggle since signing for the Chavs.
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Yes, fucking odd that, isn't it ?

Maybe it was Rafa's fault ?

 

[Judge Jules]

It'll be to do with Torres having played up front on his own for us and regularly getting kicked to f'ck.

Having said that, it's what seemed to get the best out of him, while he could be @rsed anyway.

 

[Woland]

I knew I shouldn't burn this signed pic

 

[Jürgen4PM]

[quote author=themn link=topic=45135.msg1354501#msg1354501 date=1308917331]
[quote author=Kenny4PM link=topic=45135.msg1354497#msg1354497 date=1308916534]
I know hes not exactly scoring loads of goals for them yet, but it still pisses me off that he's not had so much as a niggle since signing for the Chavs.
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Yes, fucking odd that, isn't it ?

Maybe it was Rafa's fault ?
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We know where this will go AND who will get involved if you make anymore of those comments

 

[Woland]

It was Rafa's fault he scored all them goals?

 

[themn]

[quote author=Krump link=topic=45135.msg1354543#msg1354543 date=1308922797]
It was Rafa's fault he scored all them goals?
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No.

That was in spite of Rafa.

 

[themn]

[quote author=Kenny4PM link=topic=45135.msg1354540#msg1354540 date=1308922509]
[quote author=themn link=topic=45135.msg1354501#msg1354501 date=1308917331]
[quote author=Kenny4PM link=topic=45135.msg1354497#msg1354497 date=1308916534]
I know hes not exactly scoring loads of goals for them yet, but it still pisses me off that he's not had so much as a niggle since signing for the Chavs.
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Yes, fucking odd that, isn't it ?

Maybe it was Rafa's fault ?
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We know where this will go AND who will get involved if you make anymore of those comments
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Oh ?

Where's that then ?

 

[jon545660]

Let's offer a swap deal for Ngog.

 

[localny]

[quote author=Cerberus link=topic=45135.msg1354415#msg1354415 date=1308907577]
Take him back for ten million and pay as you play :-*
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Post of the day

 

[King Binny]

Pinto da Costa made some bruising remarks regarding Andre Villas-Boas at an event held at the Figueira de Foz Casino last night. The FC Porto president claimed the now Chelsea coach left the club because he was afraid of “Mourinho’s ghost”.

In a question and answer session with one of Portugal’s top journalists, Fatima Campos Ferreira, Pinto da Costa spoke candidly about the departure of the young manager, his replacement and the incessant transfer speculation surrounding Porto’s players.

“Villas-Boas was living with Mourinho’s ghost. He was afraid he would not have the same success as in his first season. I think that was the crucial aspect in his departure,” said Pinto da Costa.

“In a conversation between the two of us I said ‘Are you worried about shipping three or four goals against FC Barcelona (in the European Super Cup)? Mourinho shipped five but that does not mean he is no longer the best coach in the world.’

“On the day he officially left I slept well because everything had been planned for. Villas-Boas rescinded his contract at 4pm and at 5pm I was presenting his replacement. I already had Vitor Pereira as back-up. Even before Villas-Boas knew himself he was going to leave, I suspected that he would be leaving.

“If I was his father I would have told him what I told him as his president and his friend: that he should stay at FC Porto one more year. In football, when you talk about European giants, the measure is not Chelsea. It’s Real Madrid, Barcelona or Manchester United. I told him that this would be Guardiola’s last season at Barcelona and that was the ideal club for him, but he was scared of the comparisons with Mourinho and left.”

A bit weird isn't it? Having made the move to Chelsea, wouldn't the Mourinho comparision be even more frequent?

 

[King Binny]

“I just didn’t see the sense of getting rid of Carlo Ancelotti,” said former Liverpool, Rangers and Newcastle manager Souness.

He was a good manager, tried and tested at the highest level. The new manager and his backroom team are relatively inexperienced.

“Being successful in Portugal with Porto isn’t the biggest of deals. They are more or less guaranteed success.

“And Villas-Boas has never played the game. I worry for Chelsea.”

 

[RolandG]

He didn't want Villas Boas to go and still got a 13M fees, now slags him off. Talk about sour grapes.

Villa Boas seems the anti-Mourinho.

 

[King Binny]

There was one doubt about Andre Villas-Boas when he arrived at Chelsea in the summer. Astonishing as Porto was last season -- it won a treble of Europa League, Portuguese Cup and Portuguese League (in which it dropped only four points) -- it never really faced a test. Sporting is at a low ebb and Benfica looks much stronger this season, while in Europe it faced no side from England, Germany, Italy or France. Of teams from the top five leagues in Europe, Porto met only Sevilla and Villarreal.

Although they finished fifth and fourth in La Liga, both were out of sorts when they met Porto. Sevilla had failed to win any of its previous five games, and even then lost only on away goals; while Villarreal looked exhausted and had begun a slump from which it is yet to recover. That's not Villas-Boas' fault, but it is a gap in his credentials.

That doubt has since become a real concern. Away against Manchester United, Chelsea had the better of the game, created more chances than United (22 to 14), and yet was beaten 3-1. It was perhaps a little unlucky, but its openness had allowed United a route into the game. It was a similar sort of misfortune that led Sir Alex Ferguson to modify his approach -- at least in continental competition -- after the defeats to Monaco, Borussia Dortmund and Real Madrid that eliminated United from the Champions League in 1997, 1998 and 2000: better, he came to think, to have, say, six chances to nil than twelve to three.

It was a similar story on Saturday: Chelsea had 14 chances to Arsenal's 13, but lost 5-3. The former Liverpool defender Alan Hansen described Villas-Boas as "naive" after the game at Old Trafford, which drew an angry response. On Saturday, Villas-Boas again insisted he would stick to his "principles." This isn't as simple as playing football that is "too attacking" or "too defensive;" Villas-Boas' whole style of play is predicated on hard-pressing and winning the ball back high up the pitch; which is something it's almost impossible to do in a defensive manner, even if the risks taken while in possession can be varied. The question then is whether the openness Chelsea has shown this season is systemic, or down to poor application of the system.

Jose Mourinho, to whom Villas-Boas seems doomed always to be compared, liked to defend deep, which was part of his strategy of conservation of energy. Essentially that has been the Chelsea way ever since; even if new managers wanted to adjust things, they found a coterie of Mourinho loyalists reluctant to change and, as they got only and slower, unable to do so. This season, though, Villas-Boas has enforced the change.

Pressing isn't an easy thing to assess statistically, but the difference in approach can be seen in the fact that Chelsea has caught the opposition offside 4.4 times per game this season, as opposed to 1.7 last season. It is also committing around 40 percent more fouls per game -- another sign of a team seeking aggressively to regain possession -- but what is perhaps surprising, is that shots conceded per game is down by 21 per cent. On the face of it, that suggests Chelsea is defensively more sound this season than last.

Shots conceded, though, is a slippery stat. At least part of the reason that United has conceded so many shots this season is that there is a belief, derived from his record in Spain last season and his performance in the Community Shield, that David De Gea is susceptible to long-range drives. That encourages teams to take potshots from range, which may actually lead to good attacking situations being wasted. When pressing goes awry, it tends to yield one-on-ones -- as with Arsenal's first, second, fourth and fifth goals -- which, obviously, lead to goals more often than, say, contested headers from 10 yards or speculative drives from 20.

The question then is why Chelsea's line looked so shaky against Arsenal (and it should be noted that against lesser sides, teams without the same composure in possession or precision in the final pass and the finish, it hasn't been an issue). Part of the problem is Petr Cech. He seemed to be back to something approaching his best last season, but he was beaten on his near side by Andre Santos for the second, Theo Walcott for the third and Van Persie for the fifth. Occasionally a shot of unexpected venom will catch a keeper on that side; but three in the same half begins to look a worrying trend.

Then there is John Terry. Whether the ongoing investigation into an alleged racist comment is affecting his mental state or not, the fact is that he is a defender who likes the ball in front of him. What he's good at is big, bold challenges such as the one that led to his goal, Chelsea's second. Really, though, he needs an intelligent center back alongside him; the absence of Ricardo Carvalho is sorely felt. Play the ball in behind him, and with his lack of pace, Terry is never going to be able to recover; if he is to play in a side that presses high, he needs a rapid defender alongside him to bail him out, ideally one with the tactical brain to prevent him being exposed. This season, though, he hasn't even had a settled partner, never mine one who could guide him, as Alex, David Luiz and Branislav Ivanovic have operated as the second center back.

But then there is a general sloppiness: the chance Van Persie volleyed over after 12 minutes, for instance, came about because Mikel John Obi was drawn out of position as a result of Daniel Sturridge and Jose Bosingwa failing to close down Andre Santos. That in turn led to Ashley Cole being exposed against Theo Walcott. Similarly, the first Arsenal goal came about because Frank Lampard, distracted by making a point to the referee, left a gap for Aaron Ramsey to exploit, and then neither Terry nor Ivanovic followed Gervinho's run.

Bosingwa was hideously out of position for the Arsenal second; Mikel, Cole, Ivanovic and Terry were all caught napping by Walcott for the third, and the fourth stemmed from an awful Florent Malouda backpass even before Terry's slip. And that perhaps is the biggest issue for Villas-Boas: this is not one element of his defensive structure failing to function; it's repeated individual errors leading to an overall malfunction.

With a deep defense, players can occasionally switch off, and rely on those at the back to bail them out. With a high line, though, the whole team has to function as a unit; the slightest flaw will be magnified. Villas-Boas was able to achieve that at Porto last season, but the question now is twofold: can he get his side to function against the highest class of opposition, and will he be given the time and the budget to equip a squad more in tune with his philosophy? Roman Abramovich supposedly became frustrated with the functionalism of Mourinho's sides, but presumably what he wanted instead was not the sort of ragged carnival of Saturday.

 

[King Binny]

At 34, we are talking about a proper rookie here. In turn, Villas-Boas now finds himself treading new ground. Because losing two league games on the trot and only drawing with Genk in the Champions League raises some awkward challenges the man is not used to facing.

He has chosen to do it, what is more, without the comprehensive sports-science back-up Chelsea have always taken so seriously. On arriving at Stamford Bridge, Villas-Boas quickly dismissed, among others, the club doctor, the fitness coach and the head of the sports-science department. These were serious professionals who had helped the team attain a level of fitness few rivals could match.

While Villas-Boas went on to replace these people, it is fair to say that he does not place anything like so much importance as his predecessors on fitness technology. The GPS tracking equipment, for example, that the players used to wear in training to record useful data has been totally discarded.

Going back to pre-season, some players were amazed to find that old-fashioned five-a-sides formed a major part of training at the expense of core conditioning.

The upshot is that Chelsea no longer appear so fit these days. Just look at their response to Arsenal’s fightback last week. Recovery levels were poor. The likes of John Terry, Ashley Cole and José Bosingwa simply could not match Arsenal’s energy.

 

[King Binny]

Andre Villas-Boas's ex-employer at Porto, Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa, believes it was too soon for the 34 year-old to try his hand in England.

He says the shadow of countryman and predecessor at both Porto and Chelsea Jose Mourinho has also dogged Villas-Boas.

"Villas-Boas went because of the huge offer Chelsea made (15 million euros)," Pinto da Costa told La Gazzetta dello Sport.

"The other thing that weighed heavily was the difficulties he had in emulating Mourinho's Champions League victory in 2004.

"He left thinking that Chelsea was a unique opportunity, but I believe that was a mistake because there would have been others."

And having claimed Villas-Boas could not match Mourinho at Porto, Pinto da Costa believes the Chelsea old guard – such as John Terry, Frank Lampard and Didier Drogba – are part of the reason he has struggled to live up to his illustrious countryman's achievements at Stamford Bridge.

"He's doing well, he qualified for the Champions League last 16 and he's in all the competitions," added the Porto president.

"He will be successful with Chelsea because his contract isn't just for one year.

"He needs time to mould his own team and he can't do that as long as there are players, as I've heard, who exchange text messages with Mourinho.

"And (Roman) Abramovich (the Chelsea owner) knows this."

Although Mourinho has enjoyed great success at every club he's coached – winning two league titles each with Porto, Chelsea and Inter Milan, while adding two Champions League crows with the Portuguese and Italians – he has come under fire at Real Madrid this season, notably for defeats to arch rivals Barcelona.

Real may be 10 points clear at the top of the Spanish League and qualified for the Champions League second round with a perfect record – the best of all qualifiers – but that hasn't appeased Madrid fans fed up at seeing their team lose to Barca in direct confrontations.

And yet Pinto da Costa doesn't believe Mourinho will be leaving the Spanish capital any time soon to return to his old London hunting ground.

"Mourinho will stay at Real Madrid next season. The only thing that will topple Villas-Boas is if he fails to qualify for the Champions League," said the Porto president.

"If he leaves Chelsea, he'll be the next coach of Inter."

“He has the right profile to coach the Nerazzurri. It is the same thing I said about Jose Mourinho when he moved to Chelsea.”